CELESTINE

v.

BLACKBURN, WARDEN

Citator

Cited By

• Watson v. Butler, 823 F.2d 842 (5th Cir. 1987)
  …See, e.g., Autry v. Estelle, 464 U.S. 925, 104 S.Ct. 326, 98 L.Ed.2d 298 (1983). The same pattern followed the Court’s grant of certiorari in Lockhart v. McCree, 474 U.S. 816, 106 S.Ct. 59, 88 L.Ed.2d 48 (1985), see, e.g., Celestine v. Blackburn, 473 U.S. 938, 106 S.Ct. 31, 87 L.Ed.2d 707 (1985), and its grant of certiorari in McCleskey v. Kemp, — U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 3331, 92 L.Ed.2d 737 (1986), see e.g., Glass v. Blackburn, stay granted, — U.S. -, 107 S.Ct. 29, 92 L.Ed.2d 779 (1986); Moore v. Blackburn, s…
• Jones v. Smith, 475 U.S. 1076 (U.S. 1986)
  …F. 2d 668 (1985). Three times in the past six months a stay of execution has been granted in virtually identical circumstances. See Bowden v. Kemp, 474 U. S. 891 (1985); Moore v. Blackburn, No. A-261 (85-5555), Oct. 4, 1985; Celestine v. Blackburn, 473 U. S. 938 (1985). In light of the disposition of those applications, I can see no justification whatever for the Court’s action today. As I noted only two days ago: “I can only lament this Court’s own special contribution to the arbitrariness and freakishness…